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Smallholder agroforestry plots may boost tree conservation - Report

By: Barbara Fraser
When natural forests are threatened by deforestation or climate change, the best hope for the survival of certain at risk tree species may be to include them in agroforestry plots managed by small farmers, according to new research. https://www.landcan.org/article/Smallholder-agroforestry-plots-may-boost-tree-conservation--Report/1453/

 

Crop Insurance and Conservation Compliance

By: Daryll E. Ray; Harwood D. Schaffer
The failed Senate bill reattached conservation compliance to the crop/revenue insurance program that was subsidized by the Federal Government.https://www.landcan.org/article/Crop-Insurance-and-Conservation-Compliance/907/

 

Iowa's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy

By: Resources First Foundation - RFF
Excerpts from Iowa's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS) applicable to Private Landowners. https://www.landcan.org/article/Iowas-Comprehensive-Wildlife-Conservation-Strategy-/195/

 

A fierce, expensive fight erupts over conservation easements

By: Timothy Cama, E&E News reporter
An ongoing fight over tax breaks for conserving privately owned land — and accusations that some people are using them as a tax shelter — is spurring an expensive lobbying battle involving landowners and conservationists. https://www.landcan.org/article/A-fierce-expensive-fight-erupts-over-conservation-easements/3524/

 

Soil and Water Conservation Districts

By: Resources First Foundation - RFF
What is a Soil and Water Conservation District? Across the United States, nearly 3,000 conservation districts - almost one in every county - are helping local people to conserve land, water, forests, wildlife and related natural resources. https://www.landcan.org/article/Soil-and-Water-Conservation-Districts/112/

 

Unique Partnership Promotes Conservation through Ranching

By: Jeff Eisenberg
A group of ranching and conservation organizations have formed a broad-based coalition to enhance ranching practices that consider important conservation issues throughout the West.https://www.landcan.org/article/Unique-Partnership-Promotes-Conservation-through-Ranching/204/

 

Mississippi's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (Wildlife Action Plan)

Excerpts from Mississippi's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS) applicable to Private Landowners.https://www.landcan.org/article/Mississippis-Comprehensive-Wildlife-Conservation-Strategy-Wildlife-Action-Plan/157/

 

Hunters - A Force for Conservation

By: Breana Behrens
Hunting seasons are starting to open, making this a great time to commemorate the important role that hunters play in habitat conservation. https://www.landcan.org/article/Hunters--A-Force-for-Conservation/1646/

 

Mitigation and Conservation Banking

By: K Gregg Elliott
To many landowners a threatened or endangered (T&E) species on their property is anathema because it can herald all kinds of state and federal limitations on use of their property.& ...https://www.landcan.org/article/Mitigation-and-Conservation-Banking/71/

 

Conservation helps landowners ‘drought proof’ farms, ranches

By: USDA NRCS
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-helps-landowners-drought-proof-farms-ranches/1107/

 

Uniform Conservation Easement Act Summary

By: Uniform Law Commission
Although traditional uses of land for industrial, commercial, residential and agricultural purposes have continued, conservation and historic preservation have become important as well. https://www.landcan.org/article/Uniform-Conservation-Easement-Act-Summary/2898/

 

Cost-effective Conservation Practices

By: Michelle Wood
This article includes ideas on how to improve your operation environmentally and economically.https://www.landcan.org/article/Costeffective-Conservation-Practices/969/

 

Government, company agreementwill help farmers improve conservation practices

By: Jennifer Carrico
https://www.landcan.org/article/Government-company-agreementwill-help-farmers-improve-conservation-practices/951/

 

Conservation Easements

By: Christopher B. Johnson
One tool for estate planners is the conservation easement, by which a landowner voluntarily restricts his or her land from being developed, restricts the amount of development or protects existing features, like a building facade with historic value. https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements/223/

 

Cattleman Practices Good Conservation

By: Bonnie Coblentz
A Mississippi cattleman is using native grasses in a 200-acre intensive grazing operation that is both efficient and environmentally friendly.& ...https://www.landcan.org/article/Cattleman-Practices-Good-Conservation/948/

 

Protecting Nature, Harvesting Timber

By: Joe Rankin
How different conservation groups got into managing forestland, and the lessons they've learned. https://www.landcan.org/article/Protecting-Nature-Harvesting-Timber/875/

 

Excerpts from California's Wildlife Action Plan applicable to Private Landowners

By: Resources First Foundation - RFF
We have done the work combing through the California Plan and excerpting all of the sections that are relevant to the needs and interested of private landowners.https://www.landcan.org/article/Excerpts-from-Californias-Wildlife-Action-Plan-applicable-to-Private-Landowners/127/

 

Charitable Conservation Contribution of Real Property Sought in WI or IL

By: K Gregg Elliott
A coalition of organizations that seek to provide sanctuary, rehabilitation, neutering and adoption services for a wide range of animals is seeking a home. https://www.landcan.org/article/Charitable-Conservation-Contribution-of-Real-Property-Sought-in-WI-or-IL/149/

 

Alternatives to Real Estate Development Deriving Financial Benefits from Conservation and Mitigation Projects in Virginia - a Lender's Collateral Concerns

By: R. Lee Stephens, Jr and Robert J. Allen
In the current economic environment, landowners previously contemplating development or sale of their real property are seeking alternative ways to generate cash flow from their real property assets.https://www.landcan.org/article/Alternatives-to-Real-Estate-Development-Deriving-Financial-Benefits-from-Conservation-and-Mitigation-Projects-in-Virginia--a-Lenders-Collateral-Concerns/96/

 

Bird Conservation in Private Ponderosa Pine Forests

American Bird Conservancy (ABC), in cooperation with the American Forest Foundation, Forest Restoration Partnership, and several other partners, is working with private landowners to implement bird conservation  measures in ponderosa pine habitat throughout the western United States. https://www.landcan.org/article/Bird-Conservation-in-Private-Ponderosa-Pine-Forests/538/